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Contrary to HN I think it's a very good idea. Some people buy cars for status and bragging, so you need the car to be expensive. Others don't care. So instead of having too separate cars, you just sell the "base version"
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Sometimes it helps to approach these things at a meta-level. What would it mean if cells were machines? Would that make humans machines? Maybe this is the problem author has. Other articles on the site which might be considered controversia
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2030: PDF viewer takes 1 minute to start, unless you subscribe to the "start in 3 seconds deluxe option".
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> Also Windows should step in and say that this application is consuming almos all of the remaining memory This is much more complicated that it appears, because the user could be intentionally doing that - if you have little memory (8
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In many countries bank are sort of responsible if they authorize a payment from a hacked client. So there is a lot of incentives to detect hacked clients.
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Sounds like there should be an option when you write assembly code to tell the compiler "please save/restore any register that I'm modifying in this asm code according to the target you are compiling for"
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Because something still crashes on the user computer. Also the tragedy of the commons, if everybody does this we are back to square one. The actual solution is for the user to buy more memory, use a different app or change the workflow.
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Not sure, but probably just the file-backed memory mapped files (as opposed to the anonymous ones) don't count.
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HN mantra: * telemetry is evil * if the product is free (Firefox), you are the product
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> you should really consider a level between "Mossad" and "not-Mossad": the sorts of people who hack crypto exchanges. Bad example, since the biggest crypto hacker is North Korea. > North Korean government-backe
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You're the one saying it's desirable to make it illegal for car companies to have their own brick and mortar stores. If you were consistent, then you would support making it illegal for Apple too.
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> same way that it became illegal for car manufacturers to sell their own vehicles in many (most?) states. This is plain old lobbying from car dealers. It has nothing to do with customer protection. Or maybe you support making it illeg
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Currency should be changed too then from GBP to UKP.
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If Mercedes made it clear when you bought the car that you'll get limited performance and you need to pay to unlock further performance, would it still be a wrong analogy?
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> would like to know how the answer is no TL;DR: cryptography and secure hardware (think TPM) This is a very interesting talk from Microsoft about how they made Xbox immune to physical attacks (modding) like you proposed. Now they are
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It's funny to see HN complain about this, but at the same time not say anything about how you can upgrade IntelliJ IDEA (and other software) from Free to Pro to Ultimate which is exactly the same thing - receive a code to unlock functi
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If you are into profitable information you buy a Bloomberg Terminal and also subscribe to Reuters news. Finance types don't read WSJ/FT/Economist, this is the "popular" financial press.
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Because extremely few programmers which are attracted by creating protocols have U/X design skills. In fact, they will probably say something like "just use the CLI, it's a superior way anyway".
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> It'd be much more useful for everyone if a portion of sports and other gambling spending can be redirected towards them. The problem is that prediction markets is typically about very rare stuff, that happens once or twice a yea
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1. There's an overlap between T and the autistic spectrum. [1] 2. Autistic spectrum is over-represented in tech. 3. There are many more man in tech. 4. There are many more trans-woman than trans-man. Multiply all these together and you
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That's because Rust is tiny and new. Wait until you have Rust packages which include and wrap hundred of thousands of lines of very old C and Fortran code like numpy has.
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Prediction markets liquidity is tiny, thus their predictions have very little "skin in the game". This was made very clear during a couple of big world events (stuff like major elections, ...), where I was watching simultaneously
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> Elaborate harmonies are just not a thing anymore. I think one way to categorize music is harmony focused (European classical music) or rhythm focused (African tribal music). In the last 30 years we've seen a big shift towards more
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But probably 50% of the global population listens to US music.
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Key changes are very popular in song contests because they allow the (live) singer to show off their skills. But key changes are not popular in popular (sic) songs. Very few EuroVision songs transition to the radio/.... You can easily
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7zip can use 2 cores (maybe more now), zstd can use all of them, but zstd doesn't support solid compression - you need to use tar with it.
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I'm in EU and from the top 10 I've only seen Pink Lady in regular shops (meaning I didn't go out of my way to search for apples).
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You need what's called "solid compression", meaning that the files are concatenated together before compression. Because otherwise compression restarts from zero for each new file - https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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Since USDC is centralized, in theory it's possible if something happens to Sol for all USDC tokens issued on that network to be transferred to another carrier chain. Like how you can exchange old banknotes for new ones. So the owner of
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Maybe he's going for the insanity defense. Could be legit, he's literally digging, admitting to blatant criminal behaviour like it's normal stuff.

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